Pencil box decorated with rosettes and seahorses, The driven copper box has a rectangular shape with a low wall, which becomes a protruding edge. It is divided into two compartments for pens and other writing utensils by a longitudinally elevated rib running across the center. The bottom is decorated decorative with hammer strokes. Four rosettes are struck in the corners, such that the hearts are spherical at the bottom and serve as legs of the object. This motif is repeated opposite to the ends of the rib, on the widened short edges. Two stylized antithetically placed seahorses are driven on either side of it. The centers of the long narrow edges are accentuated with some driven ornament., Jacob Pieter van den Bosch, Amsterdam, c. 1900 - c. 1910, copper (metal), hammering, h 2.5 cm × l 35.7 cm × w 16.6 cm
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